Angela Pate Varnam, 56, Kendall Ronald Joiner, 43, and Antonio Joshua Rousseau, 20, killed in collision with commercial truck at US 701 and NC 210 in Bladen County, North Carolina

Assistant Bladen County Coroner Kenneth Clark told the news outlet that a vehicle occupied by three contract laborers employed with Barnhill Construction were traveling on NC 210 when the vehicle apparently ran the stop sign at the intersection with US 701.

Angela Pate Varnam, 56, of Fayetteville, was driving her coworkers east on U.S. 210 when she failed to stop at a stop sign, the Highway Patrol said. Her vehicle hit the 18 wheeler and went underneath the trailer.